Introduction to Amazon Web Services

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale cloud computing easier for developers. The Nessus Network Monitor (NNM) can be installed on a VM running on AWS infrastructure.

Before you deploy Tenable Nessus Network Monitor, ensure you meet the following requirements:

• Cloud Deployment Software Requirements

• Cloud Deployment Hardware Requirements

You can deploy Tenable Nessus Network Monitor on AWS using one of the following methods:

• AWS VPC Traffic Mirroring Deployment

• AWS NAT Gateway Deployment